Alternative Medicine by Rafael Campo

In his 6th choice of poetry, the distinguished poet-physician Rafael Campo examines the primal dating among language, empathy, and therapeutic. As masterfully crafted as they're viscerally robust, those poems suggest voice itself as a type of healing medium. For all that almost all ails us, Alternative Medicine deals the balm of track and the salve of the mind's eye: from the injuries of our obdurate ameliorations of identification, to the soreness of alienation in a global of unfeeling applied sciences, to the disgrace of the chronic injustices in our society, Campo's poetry monitors a deep realizing of harm because the risk for therapeutic. Demonstrating an abiding religion in our survival, this lovely, heartfelt e-book finally embraces the good range of our methods of figuring out and dreaming, of wanting and loving, and of residing and dying.

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